Surrounded by family and a small group of friends, incumbent state Rep. Lois Landgraf allowed herself only a slight smile Tuesday night as she clinched the Republican nomination for the Colorado House District 21 seat.

Landgraf said she wasn’t surprised by the results. With 92 percent of the vote counted, Landgraf had 65.5 percent, easily defeating Raymond Garcia, who was making his third bid for the state House.

“What did I tell you it’d be?” Landgraf said to the group. “Sixty-something to 30-something.”

Several guests applauded and cheered. Landgraf refreshed the primary results to check on other races she was interested in, quietly cheering for Walker Stapleton, who won the Republican nomination for the gubernatorial race.

Liz Rosenbaum, the sole Democrat seeking the District 21 seat, received all 2,469 votes cast.

In the general election, Landgraf said she expects water to be an issue. She lives in Fountain, where residents’ drinking water has been contaminated by chemicals from firefighting foam from Peterson Air Force Base that got into the Widefield aquifer.

Fountain began using an Air Force-supplied water filter this month to remove the toxic elements, called perfluorinated compounds, from the southern El Paso County aquifer. A second filter is expected to begin working in the weeks to come.

Landgraf said the contamination has been handled and spreading information to the contrary only serves to damage property values in the area and demoralize residents.

“I’d be shocked if (Fountain) didn’t have the cleanest water in the state,” she said.

Still some in the community are wary of those promises and of the water.

Similar to Landgraf’s nomination, short-term incumbent Rep. Shane Sandridge won the Republican nomination for House District 14 with 61.1 percent of the 10,515 votes cast over challenger Kanda Calef.

Sandridge, a Colorado Springs investment consultant and former police officer, was elected in January to finish the term of former state Rep. Dan Nordberg, who accepted a position within the Trump administration.

Paul Haddick, the only Democrat who filed for the District 14 seat, also received his party’s nomination with 100 percent of the 3,490 votes cast.

Democrat Marc Snyder surrounded himself with a robust crowd Tuesday evening at PJ’s Stagecoach Inn in Manitou Springs as he nabbed his party’s nomination in House District 18 with 54.5 percent of the 7,583 votes cast over Terry Martinez, Snyder said he felt happy, humbled and energized for the general election.

“It was a real grassroots effort,” Snyder said of his campaign.

Snyder said he wants to propose tax reform to boost funding for education and transportation and to close an ever-increasing wage gap in Colorado.

The sole Republican vying for the seat, Jillian Likness, won the nomination with all 5,339 votes cast.

Maile Foster, an unaffiliated politician backed by Unite Colorado and Unite America, nonprofit organizations formally known as the Centrist Project, is seeking to petition on to the general election ballot for House District 18 and has until mid-July to gather enough signatures.

Unofficial results for additional legislative races are as follows with 92 percent of the votes counted:

State Senate District 2: Republican Dennis Hisey defeated Stepanie Luck with 57.8 percent of the 20,415 votes cast; Democrat Beth Harz beat Dennis Obduskey with 74 percent of the 8,358 votes cast. Term limits prevented the incumbent, Senate President Kevin Grantham of Cañon City, from running again.

State Senate District 9: Both candidates ran uncontested in the primary. Republican Paul Lundeen will face Democrat, Gil Armendariz in the November election.

House District 20: Both candidates ran uncontested. Incumbent Republican Rep. Terri Carver will run against Democrat Kent Jarnig.

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